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Our sad media in a nutshell

Has there been any sustained effort yet by any major news outlet to investigate that $150,000 hush-money offer that Jeremiah Wright claims he received from Obama buddy Eric Whitaker in 2008? Allegations of a big-money bribe made on a sitting president’s behalf used to be news in this country. Any takers?

Meanwhile, you may have also heard that the Romney campaign’s iPhone App misspelled the word “America” – an embarrassing but completely unimportant mistake, telling us nothing about Romney’s character or how he would govern. All the same, a search for “Romney typo” on Bing News found articles by heavy hitters USA Today, UPI, ABC News, the New York Times, Politico, the Boston Globe, and a heap of lesser institutions.

I think it’s sad what they find – and what they don’t find – newsworthy. Perhaps, though, it’s also a reflection of what most of us care about – “Romney typo” was one of the most popular searches today according to the Bing homepage.